• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    i would argue that you can probably independently define an ordering mechanism. And then apply it.

    You can just pretend that 100 is 0. I see no reason this shouldn’t apply to everything else.

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      5 months ago

      What do you mean by independent? There is no more general and independent notion of ordering than a less-than operator. The article above oulines a mathematical proof that no such definition exists in a consistent way for the complex numbers.